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Zooniverse Project Builder

Zooniverse (Citizen Science Alliance)

NontraditionalIn-kind resource

Free software and hosting for researchers to build crowdsourced data-classification projects — a way to get transcription, coding or image/document classification done at scale without a data-processing budget.

Indicative award
Not a cash award (not a cash award)No money changes hands. The policy page states the Project Builder software and hosting are provided for free at present.
Timing
Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.No deadlines. Build any time; review for official status takes roughly two weeks, followed by a one-week beta.
Who can apply
Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank
Eligibility
No stated restriction on who may build a project. To become an official, promoted Zooniverse project you must pass internal review against platform policies (typically about two weeks) and a one-week beta test by volunteers, commit to a well-designed study, open your classification data after a proprietary period of normally two years, publish open access, and acknowledge Zooniverse. Public projects are limited to 10,000 subject uploads per user.
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Topics
citizen science · crowdsourced data classification · transcription · volunteer coding
Apply at
https://help.zooniverse.org/getting-started/lab-policies
This entry
Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.

Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.

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